Volunteering
Join us for our next Volunteer Week at Fforest Barn Retreat!
August 10th to 13th 2026
This is a fantastic opportunity to roll up your sleeves and contribute to the farm’s sustainable future while enjoying the beauty of nature. Our mission is to honour nature and create a rich and uplifting environment to support people’s transformation at retreats. Check out the what’s on this year.
If you don’t mind hard work and have a passion for gardening, mowing, wood chopping and sawing or general maintenance and would like to spend 2 or 3 days at our heavenly place we will feed you optimum nutrition, accommodate you in style and generally have a good time. You can even try out our new salt block wood-fired sauna and ecopool after a hard day’s work. Our main goal is to prep the ground and plant up our new polytunnel and get the compost system really working, plus general gardening duties in the Food Fforest and cleaning up the woods and storing away logs to dry over winter.
This Volunteer week requires you to arrive as early as possible on Monday 10th August and leave as late as possible on Thursday 13th. We will only accept those coming for at least 2 days with good skills and fitness. If you don’t mind hard work and have a passion for gardening, mowing, chainsawing, wood chopping or general maintenance and would like to spend 2 to 4 days at our heavenly place we will feed you optimum nutrition, accommodate you in style and generally have a good time.
In exchange for your time and effort, we will offer delicious food, great company and luxurious board (along with the chance to unwind and relax in the hot tub or sauna and ecopool after a hard day’s work). We do need a bit of help with the food as well. Last time people offered to ‘guest chef’ a meal or two or just help in the kitchen, supporting the cooking. This is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who share a love for nature, while making a lasting impact on the farm.
This 1 minute video shows you what volunteers have helped transform Fforest Barn.
How?
Fill in the online form Volunteering at Fforest Barn so we know a bit about you, your skills, food preferences, likely dates and so on. We will then contact you back. If you’ve come before we know your skills but it’s useful to know your dates. (Please note, we are also looking for ‘local’ volunteers who could come on a regular basis a couple of days or more a month. Please email me, Angus, if you’re interested in this at fforestmountain@holfordnatural holidays.com.
It will ‘sell out’ so do reserve your place early and we encourage you to come as a couple, or bring a friend just because we have quite a few double/twin bed rooms, or be willing to share. Those coming for all four days will get priorities on room bookings.
We are 10 minutes from Abergavenny station, with trains up to Manchester, or down to London (under 2.5 hours from Paddington) via Newport. It’s a 2.5 hour drive from London. Taxis are available from Abergavenny station and our taxi driver will know if there’s others coming on the same train to split the far.
